Roger Malina

Did you know Ants Exhibit Compassion, Empathy and Sympathy

Roger F Malina July 3 2024 Compassion: I am working with high school teacher Antonia Moran , https://artscilab.utdallas.edu/2024/04/04/compassion-as-medicine-literature-as-the-catalyst/ , and Johnathan Tsou https://profiles.utdallas.edu/jonathan.tsou . Antonia Moran is leading a funding proposal in our UTDallas ArtSciLab , https://artscilab.utdallas.edu/ , on Compassion Science. She is focusing on the role of literature and narratives. She will be applying […]

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CiberVillage here we KOM :

June 14, 2024, Roger F Malina Apophenia is a skill, but I have PAREIDOLIA. https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pareidolia. I am obsessed with my friends about creating a cibervillage ( NOT a cyber village or a smart village or …).  Yes, our first village fair was in Bogota, Colombia: https://festivaldelaimagen.com/en/portfolio-item/ciber-villages-2/  We think, as do others, that large human groups

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A Hybrid Professional’s duty to Migrant Ancestors

Roger F. Malina, ArtSciLab, Bass School, University of Texas at Dallas, 800 W. Campbell Upon reading “ A neuroscientist’s duty to Black Ancestors’ by Chandler Wright. https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adp0690 The concept of desirable migration is deeply embedded in my family history, and a trigger for my first career as a space astrophysicist. My father was Frank. J.

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Celebrating the 50th anniversary of a strange discovery: A poem in memory of Arthur Davidsen

As of June 17 2024 Blog by Roger F. Malina On the 14th of July 1974 My best friend the late Arthur Davidsen and I Spent a pointless night observing a strange phenomenon  On,  Or in, The sky. All night. Several nights. At the Lick Observatory Above Silicon valley Which had just been named in

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Who was Leonardo Da Vinci’s Mother; And why might we care?

Roger F Malina June 9 2024 I am part of a community of practice that, usually mistakenly, admires and remembers heroes. This community(s) of practice(s) seeks to create bridges between the arts, sciences, and technology. My father co-created the Leonardo journal to document and disseminate this work beginning in 1968. Leonardo Da Vinci is certainly

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